Backpacker dies from alcohol poisoning

Tuesday, 20 May, 2013 0

Another tourist has died in Indonesia from suspected alcohol poisoning.

The 23-year-old British backpacker was travelling with a fellow Briton on Sumatra when she drank a local whisky called Mansion, according to the police document.

Police said they are investigating whether the alcohol was laced with methanol.

There have been several previous cases where methanol-laced alcohol has proved fatal in Indonesia, the majority of the fatalities happening in Bali.

Earlier this year a young Australian died after drinking a methanol-laced drink on the island of Lombok.



 

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